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1) Night
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed. of new translation.
Lexile measure
590L
Physical Desc
xxi, 120 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Français
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Description
Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. [This book] is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man.
2) Night
Author
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Night offers a personal and unforgettable account of the appalling horrors of Hitler's reign of terror. Through the eyes of 14-year-old Eliezer, we behold the tragic fate of the Jews from the little town of Sighet. Even as they are stuffed into cattle cars bound for Auschwitz, the townspeople refuse to believe rumors of anti-Semitic atrocities. Not until they are marched toward the blazing crematory at the camp's "reception center" does the terrible...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Three works deal with a concentration camp survivor, a hostage holder in Palestine, and a recovering accident victim.
Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. First published in 1960, it is the autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his father in Auschwitz. Wiesel writes of their battle for survival, and of his battle with God for a way to understand the wanton cruelty he witnesses each day. In the short novel Dawn (1961),...